Amazon likely to outsource 10.1-inch tablet PCs to Foxconn — Amazon is expected to outsource the production of 10.1-inch tablet PCs to Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), and shipments of the 10.1-inch tablets are likely to begin before year-end 2011 for holiday-season demand, according to industry sources.

The Slashdot Effect from the Other Side — Today I got my first ever taste of the Slashdot Effect from the other side. A fluffy little rambling I wrote voicing some concerns about the Silk web browsing component of Amazon's Fire tablet actually got linked by my old home base.

Apple TV to Launch in 7 New European Countries Next Tuesday — With Apple adding movie content to its iTunes Stores in a number of new European countries earlier this week, some have wondered whether Apple will be bringing its Apple TV set-top box to those countries to help users take advantage of the new content.

Oracle to Launch NoSQL Database at OpenWorld — Oracle plans to launch and demo a NoSQL database at Oracle OpenWorld next week along with a Hadoop data builder and in-memory data store. — According to information from the Oracle Open World Web site, the new offering will be part of keynotes from Intel and Cisco.

AOL's Seed Is ‘Defunct’ — AOL launched Seed, its platform for freelancers, to great fanfare in late 2009. — It was intended as a way for AOL to solicit content from freelancers. Editors would post stories, and writers would get them written. It was an efficient, seamless way to generate articles …